Justice Department seeks more cybervigilance from citizens
PITTSBURGH – The Justice Department’s top national security prosecutor is in Pittsburgh calling for increased vigilance by citizens to combat the home-grown terrorists being created over the Internet by the Islamic State group.
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin made those remarks Wednesday before a speech he was to give to the National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance.
Carlin says the threat from the Islamic State group is different than that posed by al-Qaeda and other more structured groups.
That’s because the Islamic State uses the Internet to target and radicalize individuals, then encourage them to commit isolated terrorist acts.
Carlin says, “What they’ve essential done is franchise-out terrorism.”
Carlin says that parents and others need to be more vigilant about the kinds of online contacts young people are having.